An Garda Síochána have seized 4,000 TV set top boxes during a European-wide operation cracking down on intellectual property rights infringement.

These so-called dodgy boxes are used as a way of getting subscription TV for free.

So could this spell the end for the dodgy box? How will it impact the pirate alternative to subscription TV?

Adrian Weckler, technology editor with the Irish Independent, joined us to discuss this.